Button for hose-supporters.



No. 833,628. '7 PATENTED OCT. 16, 1906. A. E. PLOWMAN. BUTTON FOR HOSE SUPPORTERS.

APPLICATION EILED JUNE 26,1905.

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Patented. Oct. 16, 1905.

Application filed June 26, 1905.- fiarial No. 267,043.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBEmi E. PLowMaN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Buttons for hose-Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

I Various devices have been used to provide a tractive surface upon the button-like head used 1n connection with a 100 in that class of hose-suporters in which t is material of the stocking is laid over the head and engaged therewith by the loop, so to prevent slipping ahd therabrasion and tearing of the stocking. Durability of the tractive facing itself and also in its application to the head is an essential'feature of such devices, and the object of this invention is to secure such durability. r

The invention consists of a hose-supporter buttonthavingd a post and a tractive facing secured to it y a metal clamping member and exposed about the top and side of the post, as I will proceed now particularly to set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 1s a perspective view. Fig. 2 shows in perspective the several components parts .of the device of Fi 1 before assembling; Fig. 3is a longitudinal section of one form of hollow post shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a modified form of button. Fig. 5 shows in perspective the component parts,

I excepting the base-plate, of the modification Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a plan view and a cross-section, cupped, of a modified form of clamping member. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section of a hollow capped post shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section of a button having a solid post and a clamping member such'as shown in Fig. 9. Fig. 9 is a perspective View of the component parts of the button of Fig. 8, excepting the base-plate. Fig. .10 is a side elevation of still another modification. Fig. 11 is a longitudinal section of a solid post shown in Fig. 9. Fig-.12 is a longitudinal section of the modification shown in Fig. 10.

The base-plate 1 is of any ap oved form and adapted to be applied to the webbing in the usual way. The post 2 may be hollow and open-ended, as in Figs. 2 and 3,'and applied to the base-platc before or after the application of the tractive facing 3. This latplied on the post of ter method will. especially be hsed when the metallic clamp, hereinafter described, is apthe button beneath the head of the post. This tractive facing may he of :1 oth, leather, rubber, celluloid, or. other.

substance or material which is capable of or may be made capable of yielding under joressure, and it is of larger diameter than the head of the post and is laid over the top of the post and clamped thereon and around the side of the post by a metallic clan'iping memher 4. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, this clamping member is composed of a central solid portion 5, from which a number of arms 6 radiate, and in applying it the portion 5 is placed over the tractive facing 3 in line with the center of the post and its arms bent down over the rim orv side and underneath the head, these arms sinking into the mate rial, so as to cause it tobulge out between the arms and present a series 9f surfaces over the top and rim or side of the head of the post to which the stocking will adhere in order to prevent its slipping, yet of sufficient softness to obviate abrading and tearing it. The tractive facing in ay have a central perforation 7, so as to allow the central portion 5 of the clamping member to sink farther into it, as

shown at 5*, Fig. l, and get into actual or very near contact with the metal of the post. This provision will be of advantage when the tractive facing is applied to the post before the latter is riveted to the base-plate, since the settingtool is thereby supplied with rigid working surfaces. 1

Instead of a clamping member having radiate arms there may be used a scalloped disk 8, F ig. 5, having cut 0ut-portions 9 and referably with the central perforation 10. a disk when provided with a central perforation may he slipped upon the post beneath. the head of the post before the base plate 1 is attached to the post and then its rim bent inwardly over the tractive facing, or it may be cupped and applied above the tractive facing and its rim bent inwardly beneath the head. In either case the tractive facing material will bulge out through the openings 9, and that portion of the clamping member adjacent the perforation 7 in the tractive facing will be forced into said perforation, as shown in Fig. 4; or the clamping member may be made of a disk 11,'Fig. 6, preferably without a central perforation and having uch IIO

V-shaped cuts 12 near its rim through which tho'tractive facing bulges, as unheated by the dotted lines; at 12 in the cross-section, Fig. 6, the disk being cupped, as shown, so as to bring the cuts in the bend for this purpose and applied above the trective facing in the some manner as the clamping-piece of-Fi 5. in connection with the modifications, Digs.

4., and G, a. hello"; -post 13, having a capped eeo l i, sueh as shown in Figs. 5, end 7, may he used. I

As seen in Figs. 8 and 9, e radiate clamp 15, hea ing a central erforation l6,' may be used; to be applied similarly to the perforaed clamp 55 (shown in Fig. beneath the l ie pest s-md its ends turned up and idly over the traotive facing and ier hent down into the central of the trective facing, as shown S. l in this modification a solidest 1? is shown.

. 10 end. 12 the tractive facing 18 extends over the head and down upon the shook of the post to the base-plate 1, and the arm 6 of the clamping member 4 of a construction sii her to that shown in Fig. 2 have 21, air extent, and thus the entire poet, including its shank and head, is pro video. with e trsctive facing exposed heyoild amping member.

vutzitione of the different modificarmiv be used in producing desirable 1. buttons; hut in any case the tractive facing oi fii r'ohlc materiel and is firmly clemped the ENE-s 5. if a plestie material is used for the trective facing, it is matted or knurled to reduce it motive surface and rendered soft efore a-pso as to be bent to shape and allow of the clamping member in it, herdens, leaving some of its eeaeea trective surface exposed about the top end 0 side of the post beyond the clamping member.

The invention obviously is susceptibleof a variety of forms, and there are herein shown and described only these forms which seem host in applying the principle of the inven tion.

What I claim is 1. A hose-supporter button, having a headed post, it trectii 'e facing of larger diometertlmn the head of the post applied to said post, ei'id a metallic clamping member plied externally to said facing and causing said. trective facing to. be exposed about the top andside of thepost beyond said clamping member. 7' 5'5 2. A hosesupporter button, hevin e headed post, 0. trecti've facingsurrounding the top and rim of the head of the 0st and a clamping member applied to the cod and sunk in the facing, and causing said fac ng to be exposed about the top end rim of said head he ond said clamping member.

3. A ose-supporter button, hevingapost, a trective facing enveloping the top and side of said post, and a clamping member com posed of'e control portion and arms redisting therefrom, said clamping member ap pl ed to the post and its central portion end arms sunk in the facing, and fastening it to the post and causing'seid tmctivc facing to he exposed at the top and side oi the post be yond said clamping member. y

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of June, A. D. i905.

ALBERT E. PLOW'M AN.

Witnesses:

M. R. EARNED, HARDIN Wrrison- 

